Cook-book



A. M. CLARK.

COOK BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2. I9Is.

Patented July 8, 1919.

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COOK-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 8', 1919.

Application filed March 2, 1915. Serial No. 11,618.

To'all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNIE M. CLARK, citizen of the United States,resident of St. Cloud, county of Stearns, State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cook-Books, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My-invention relates to that type of cook book having blank leaves onwhich the recipes are Written when they have been tested and approved bythe housekeeper or cook. In keeping such a book, there is nearly alwaysan accumulation of loose sheets with recipes written thereon orclippings from newspapers containin recipes which the cook wishes to trybefore making a permanent entry in the book. Such sheets and slips areusually placed loosely between the leaves and when the book is picked upwill fall out and sometimes be lost.

The object, therefore, of my invention is to provide a book of this kindwith a series of pockets in which the loose sheets and clip-' pings canbe placed and kept securely untilsuch time as the cook can test them orhave opportunity for copying them into the book.

The invention consists generally in a book having groups of blank leaveswith sheets having pockets formed thereininterposed at intervals betweenthe leaves.

In the accompanying drawings part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a view of a cook book in open position embodying myinvention,

Fig. "2. is a' perspective view of one of the sheets in which the pocketis formed,

Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing the sheet with the pocket formedtherein and ready to be bound in with the other leaves of the book.

In the drawing, 2 represents a suitable cover and 3 a series of blankruled pages on which the recipes are written. book with these pages Iprovide a series of sheets a having a fla 5 on the outer longitudinaledge that is a apted to be folded on a score line 6 over upon the mainportion of the sheet, while similar flaps 7 are provided at the ends ofthe sheet to be folded over on the flap 5 and secured thereto,preferably by having their edges gummed, making of an envelop. Theseflaps cooperforming and having Bound in the as usual in the,

ate to form a pocket 8 and the edge of the flap 5 is curved so that thepocket will be deeper at the ends than in the middle to aid in holdingthe loose sheets or clippings in the pocket and as the recipesaccumulate, the cook will place them in the pockets until such time asthey can be tested and found of suflicient merit to warrant makin apermanent entry on the blank pages. lhe sheets 4 are provided at theedge with index tabs 9 so that the recipes for the different articles offood can be grouped under the proper .index letter.

The book may be made in various sizes and the number of blank pages 3will, of course, vary, a greater number being provided under the vowelsthan under the consonant letters. WVhen the recipe has been entered onone of the blank pages, the slip, of course, may be destroyed and thepockets used only for those recipes which have not been tested orapproved, or as a receptacle for the recipes until such time as thehousekeeper has opportunity to transfer them to the blank pages.

In various ways the details of construction herein shown and describedmay be modified and still be within the scope of my invention.

I claim as my invention:

A cook book comprising a cover, a series of blank leaves bound therein,a series of leaves interspersed with said blank leaves side and endflaps thereon, said side flap, when .folded inwardly over the leaf,extending partially across it and secured by the folding inwardly ofsaid end flaps to form a pocket with its mouth opening to the boundedges of the leaves and adapted to receive loose slips of paper havinguntried recipes, there being a pocket opposite each blank leaf in thebook, and permanent entry of the recipes, when tested, being made on thepage opposite the pocket containin said recipes, and index tabs on saidblan: and pocket leaves.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day ofFebruary 1915.

ANNIE M. CLARK.

Witnesses Emzanmrr H. MITCHELL, R. B. Bnownn.

